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Children of the Days - A Calendar of Human History (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Children of the Days - A Calendar of Human History (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Selected by Guernica magazine as an "Editors' Picks: Best of
2013"Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo
Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes
inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the
heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but
whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest
victories.Challenging readers to consider the human condition and
our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our
world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic,
and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten.Readers will
discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes:
the Brazilians who held a smooch-in" to protest against a
dictatorship for banning kisses that undermined public morals" the
astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States and the
sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a
church in the Galician city of A Coruna in 1901. Galeano also
highlights individuals such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first
bishop of Brazil, who was eaten by Caete Indians off the coast of
Alagoas, as well as Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of
Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library
of 117,000 tomes aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long
caravan.Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collabourator,
Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a majestic humanist treasure
that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best
in us.
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